Shrikes and Bush-shrikes: Including Wood-shrikes, Helmet-shrikes, Shrike Flycatchers, Philentomas, Batises and Wattle-eyes
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Overview
The book covers the identification, biology and relationships of all true shrikes, bush-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, the closely related shrike flycatchers, philentomas, batises and wattle-eyes.
This book offers information on 114 species in 21 genera within the families Laniidae and Malaconotidae. For each genus, acoustic and visual signals are summarized and used to map similarities.
The detailed species account for the bulk of the book, providing knowledge on field identification, plumage descriptions, geographical variation, moult, distribution, movements. general and foraging behaviour, food, sounds and breeding behaviour.
The book covers the identification, biology and relationships of all true shrikes, bush-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, the closely related shrike flycatchers, philentomas, batises and wattle-eyes.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Sponsorship
Layout and Methods
Introduction:
- History
- Characteristics of shrikes
- Shrike communication
- Communication summaries and relationships
- Glossary
- Topography
- Genera Overview
Species Accounts (1-114)
References
Appendix A: Problems of species limits and relationships
Appendix B: Comparative characters
- Title: Shrikes and Bush-shrikes: Including Wood-shrikes, Helmet-shrikes, Shrike Flycatchers, Philentomas, Batises and Wattle-eyes
- Authors: Tony Harris, Kim Franklin
- Series: Helm Identification Guides
- Publisher: Helm
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 392
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781408134597, 9780713638615, 0713638613, 1408134594
- Resource ID: LLS:9781408134597
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T13:00:32Z
Tony Harris is Associate Curator in the Department of Birds at the Transvaal Museum in South Africa, where he established the Fitzpatrick Bird Communication Library. He has undertaken extensive fieldwork and sound recording in southern Africa and has been researching shrike taxonomy and systematics for many years. He is the author of Shrikes of Southern Africa.
Kim Franklin, a member of the Society of Wildlife Artists, has exhibited his work in countries throughout Europe and Africa. His illustrations have appeared in numerous books, including Birds of the Western Palearctic, Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, and the award-winning Parrots.